Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in after his party’s landslide win in parliamentary elections last week, the ...

Bangladesh entered a new chapter on Tuesday as BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman was sworn in as prime minister, ending nearly one and a half decades of undemocratic rule and ushering in a renewed era of ...

As BNP's Tarique Rahman takes oath today, Muhammad Yunus has emerged as the biggest winner in Bangladesh. He pulled off most things he set out to do in the last 18 months and conducted an election by ...

An Islamist party has become Bangladesh's main opposition for the first time in the country's history, challenging the old dynastic political system despite persistent concerns among critics about the ...

Accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, he was dragged from his workplace, beaten, hauled more than a kilometre through ...

Student protesters succeeded in toppling the Bangladeshi government in 2024, but a landslide victory for the establishment BNP party shows that Gen Z is still struggling to turn demonstrations into ...

The party is dedicated to running the country under Islamic law, but ran on a more moderate platform. It gained far more seats in last week’s election than it ever had before.

Tarique Rahman, the scion of a political dynasty, is set to become the prime minister. This was the first election in Bangladesh since student-led protests toppled the last government in 2024.

A reset of the frayed relationship is possible, say analysts. But it will require restraint - and reciprocity.

Tarique Rahman’s decisive victory may redraw regional alignments after years of pro-India policy under ousted PM Hasina.

Bangladeshi voters went to the polls on February 12 for the first election to take place since the ousting of Sheikh Hasina in 2024.

This is not just a routine change of guard. Close to 70% of voters also backed “yes” in a constitutional referendum, agreeing to a raft of changes from prime-ministerial term limits to the creation of ...